Unto the Breach

The Elizabethan theatrical repertory was enthralled with the era''s martial discourses and beset by its blinding visions. In her richly historicized account of the theater''s engagement with ''modern'' warfare, Patricia Cahill juxtaposes the new military technologies and new modes of martial abstraction with the performance of war-suffused dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries. ...